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What to shut off first when the power goes out so you don’t fry anything
When the lights cut out without warning, what you do in the next minute can decide whether your electronics survive the outage or end up scorched by the return of power. The risk is not just inconvenience,
More than 15,000 Xcel Energy customers across the Front Range remained without power Friday afternoon, due to high winds in the Fort Collins, Loveland, LaPorte, Timnath and Windsor areas. Of those, 9,000 were planned shut-offs by Xcel earlier in the day. The others were caused by wind damage.
A small area of Clayton was the first area PG&E turned off power in to prevent wildfires. Later in the day, areas near Livermore, Discovery Bay, and Lake delete Vale had their power shut off too. PG&E proactively shuts off its power lines after the utility ...
Misty Pellew’s family lived in the dark for several days this month. Pellew’s power was shut off Nov. 13 because of $602 in unpaid bills, the latest in a string of financial humiliations that began six months ago after her husband lost his $20-an-hour ...
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